Will World-class competition and the medaling of champions keep you watching the 2016 Summer Olympics? Or will you watch in anticipation of barriers and limitations being shattered? When it comes to breakthroughs and victories, though, you don’t just have to witness Michael Phelps compete for y...

Hate is a cattle prod. It finally nudges some over the brink to commit the kind of violent acts that have shocked us recently, both foreign and domestic. You and I might know we’d never get pushed that far. But what if we are nursing some unyielding disdain of our own? Are we then helping to cre...

One hundred and fifty years ago, after a couple of decades of research, trials, and victories, a woman in New England - Mary Baker Eddy - discovered it was possible to experience health regardless of lifestyle, diet, and genes. In 1866 she had a significant healing that pointed away from these ...

“I always had a cigarette in my mouth. The first thing I did in the morning was light up.” Bob was addicted to smoking. He was a “four packs a day” man. He knew his habit could destroy his health but that didn’t seem to make any difference. “I was having difficulty breathing. I would run out of b...

“I just felt like something was pressuring me to do it,” John LaDue told his mother after his arrest in 2014. LaDue had hatched a well thought-out plan, according to CNN . His goal was to carry out the worst school massacre in US history. Mercifully for his intended victims, the 11th grader’s ...

Several years ago, Neil Strauss, in his The Wall Street Journal article God at the Grammys: The Chosen Ones , wrote: Before they were famous, many of the biggest pop stars in the world believed that God wanted them to be famous, that this was his plan for them, just as it was his plan for the ...

How many times have you watched a drum line perform and found yourself moving to the beat of those drums? There’s a pulse, a rhythm to life, and the sounds of synchronized drumming somehow seem to stir us to recognize the marvel of that. And there’s more to the beating of drums than meets the eye...

Throughout history, moments spent strolling through floral paths, even planting vegetable and herb gardens, have been found to be therapeutic. A Health & Science article in The Washington Post put a spotlight on the benefits of nature moments. It examined Robert Zarr’s “innovative community ...

The tragedy of fifteen-year-old Sadie Walker has me thinking about lifelines. Sadie took her life on Christmas Day last year, according to the Dallas Morning News , and her story suggests that doom and gloom thinking can be contagious. Sadie had joined an online chat group of teenagers talking a...